I am using an AIX 5200-05 (IBM UNIX) with perl.rte 5.8.0.10.

I have a file /tmp/log/startOnline.was_20050801_0701.joblog which has a timestamp of Aug 01 2005. The last time it was accessed and modified was like over 370 days. Of course, the /tmp/log directory has many log files.

In Perl, here is part of the code: 

$path = "/tmp/log";
$file = "startOnline.was_*_*.joblog";
@TODELETE = `ls -t $path/$file`;
foreach $logfile (@TODELETE) {
  printf ("%12s %5d %5d %5d\n", $logfile, -M $logfile, -A $logfile, -C
+ $logfile);
}

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The output lists "/tmp/log/startOnline.was_DATE_TIME.joblog 0 0 0".

In Perl, I thought the "-M" file-test operator returns how long since the file has been modified, "-A" returns how long since the file has been accessed, and "-C" returns how long since the file's inode has been accessed.

If $logfile has the full path of the filename, how come the file-test operators display zeroes?

If I can get the file operators to work, I can finish my Perl script to start deleting the older log files.

Any help would be appreciated.

Gary

In reply to Perl File-Test Operators by gyasuda

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